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Citycat reacted to Yankeewolf's post in the thread What if Nikita Khrushchev never became the leader of the Soviet Union? with
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No, By nearly every metric, living in Khrushchev's Soviet Union was the best time to actually live in the USSR. -
Citycat reacted to Kyro92's post in the thread Development of the world if European age of exploration stillborn with Like.
Before I put forth the scenario, I have a request: please don't focus on your responses on the delay of European exploration and the...
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Citycat replied to the thread What other region could dominate the world the way Europe did?.China if it had a political, religious or economic motivation. Paul Kennedy in the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers argues that the...
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Citycat reacted to KING OF EGYPT's post in the thread What if, somehow, Iraq managed to win the Iraq War? with Like.
Man, admit it. The United States took thousands of troops in Vietnam and four American presidents and did not win, and in fact billions...
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Citycat replied to the thread China as a Axis Supporter WWII.If the POD is only the 1920s, and if Japan is not aggressive towards China then you have basically butterflied away the Sino-Japanese...
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Citycat reacted to EasternRomanEmpire's post in the thread China as a Axis Supporter WWII with Like.
Why would the KMT align itself with Germany? It seemed to me like Chiang was much more worried about China itself than some...
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Citycat reacted to DG Valdron's post in the thread What if Spain somehow won the Spanish-American War with Like.
Well, the Spanish American War was a pretty naked act of aggression by the US against Spain. So conceivably, a more dangerous Spain...
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Citycat reacted to Kurd Gossemer's post in the thread Would 19th century China have fared differently under an ethnically Han dynasty? with Like.
Like other people here have said it, the Manchu weren't much different from the other dynasties when it came to ruling China but I do...
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Citycat reacted to Declan's post in the thread What if, somehow, Iraq managed to win the Iraq War? with Like.
I think the defining image of the war, instead of being Saddam's statue being toppled, is a picture of Jacques Chirac laughing his butt...
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Citycat reacted to Jellico's post in the thread How powerful could Italy have become by 1940 if it wasn't run by a strutting buffoon? with Like.
I have to ask, what is the alternative to a strutting buffoon? Italy was politically unstable and the buffoon was competent enough to...
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Citycat reacted to sparky42's post in the thread The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2 with Like.
It’s been discussed before, with the general view of it not really ending up being anything better for the Reich and arguably worse even...
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Citycat reacted to SenatorChickpea's post in the thread What if Japan and Italy fought in World War I on the side of the Central Powers? with Like.
This is a classic 'WI Governments clicked a different button on the focus tree' question. History doesn't work like a computer game -...
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Citycat reacted to SenatorChickpea's post in the thread What if Japan and Italy fought in World War I on the side of the Central Powers? with Like.
To reframe your question: WI Japan attacks its closest ally and major financial backer, entering a war with three Great Powers whose...
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Citycat reacted to raharris1973's post in the thread What if the German western campaign of 1940 does not invade or occupy Netherlands? with Like.
What if the final campaign design the Germans adopted and launched in spring 1940, avoided invading and occupying the Netherlands? What...